Chapter 631 The Big One is Coming (W-Character Mega-Chapter, Thanks to sildrugtanni for the Reward!)

The city of Avendell is in chaos, like a muddy swamp.

The turmoil caused by Su Zhou leading the First Light ship in a collision has yet to be understood by the local city guards.

Although Avendell has a network of communication arrays, it is only an encrypted network for communication, not the Internet like on Earth.

So, up to now, based on reports from at least a hundred completely different informants, at least seven or eight completely different developments can be summarized.

From demonized beasts attacking the city, to rebel uprisings and raids on the port; from demonized person rebellions, to revenge duels between Southern Territory nobles…all kinds of guesses abound.

Even Earl Avendell himself probably only knows a series of chaotic bad news such as ‘a very fast, very hard, and very powerful warship raided and directly destroyed one of our own warships’, ‘the eastern city’s protective walls were breached’, and ‘the city guard headquarters was raided by a strongman who was beheaded, and the front-line command system completely lost control’.

As everyone knows, to attack a mobile city and pilot a medium-sized mobile warship, at least a thousand professional soldiers are needed.

And to break through the protective wall and destroy the headquarters in the first instance, all of these thousands of soldiers must be elites, at least at the Ninghun stage, and the leader must be at the Xinguang stage.

In this way, things are easy to understand.

——This is war!

What? You say there aren’t that many people?

Then where did the chaos on the front line come from? Why does everyone say that they saw the enemy, were attacked, and are holding on to a safe and critical area, in desperate need of reinforcements?

It is now clear that a state of total war has been entered, with a large number of enemies having invaded the city, so abandon all illusions and engage in street fighting!

This is the situation in Avendell now.

Requests for help and wails from all directions make everyone feel as if the entire city is at war.

In the dC district, the smoke of gunpowder billows. In order to avoid being affected by the war, the residents of the slums on the outskirts of the dC district, as well as a large number of residents of the lower city, are all flocking to the relatively safe inner city. This action has caused a large amount of chaos and riots.

There are even a few ulterior motives, such as some low-ranking demonized persons and underworld gangs, etc., who are deliberately taking advantage of the fire to loot the savings and wealth of those who are alone.

Anyway, it is almost a wartime state now, neither the city guards nor the patrolling guards are present…when the legal order is empty, it is a good time for them to run rampant.

Su Zhou and his party are in this environment, heading towards the increasingly chaotic dC district.

The most important thing in a mobile city is the core city located in the center.

Although each sub-district has its own independent source energy furnace core, the core city’s source energy furnace core has the greatest power and is the most stable. It can provide most of the energy for the entire city after the mobile city is assembled.

Centered on the urban noble residences in the core city, each circle of the city represents a class. First transcendents, then ordinary people; maybe merchants, or maybe engineers, each city's classifications are different.

But the same thing is that the most outer, the most turbulent, and also the most remote area of the city is the slum and the lower city.

Here, most of the people living are civilians, demonized persons, marginal races, and illegal people without identity documents.

A large number of dangerous elements and poor people gather in one place, making this place a no-man’s land in the city.

Except for a few ports and surrounding docks, even if people die in the marginal area, no Imperial Guards will come to manage it.

In addition, the continent of Aean has been in constant war for many years, and the Asmodean Empire often has rebel uprisings. There are countless kinds of extortionate taxes, so ordinary people who are struggling on the poverty line often cannot make ends meet for a while and can only enter the slum.

The slum in the dC district is more chaotic and unscrupulous than the slum in the southern district. If Professor Svetlaya of the past could still use his name to deter petty thieves and protect the orphanage in the southern district, then in the dC district, the lawless madmen would not care whether they would be retaliated against for their evil deeds. They would just do it first and then talk about it.

A team of more than thirty children is extremely conspicuous, and it is even more noticeable to be traveling against the crowd.

The crowd who are rushing to the inner city naturally don’t have time to pay attention to this strange team, but the original residents of the dC district who have not left but stayed at home for various reasons have noticed this abnormality, and then they all look at this place with different eyes.

“What kind of trash are these?”

Su Zhou also naturally noticed those gazes, and he frowned slightly: “Naked malice, like beasts.”

Now, those who remain in the dC district, except for those who really cannot leave due to hardship, are all demonized persons, and the gangs of demonized persons.

Compared to the poor, a lower level is the demonized persons.

They can only live in the lower city and can never go to other areas. They are originally existences abandoned by the city. If it were not for the fact that the jobs in the factory treat everyone equally, as long as they are laborers, most people in the lower city would not be able to find a job.

However, they also have power—the source energy abilities brought about by demonization allow some demonized persons to make a living by exploiting other demonized persons and ordinary people, which has led to the emergence of gangs.

For example, stowaways from fixed villages. These young rural people who thought that entering the mobile city could change their lives are forced to settle here. Most of them don’t even recognize many characters. Even if they enter the factory, they can only be the lowest-level odd-job workers, and only a few who rely on their skills to become cooks or cleaners can live a little more easily.

But even so, most people in the lower city have to get up and work before dawn and not end until dusk—and some people even need to work two jobs. They have to work very late into the night before they can go home, and there is a high probability that a considerable part of their money will be taken away by the gang as protection money.

This is the source of the gang's wealth.

At this moment, pairs of suspicious, greedy eyes are looking at the team from the Hee Light Orphanage.

Although it doesn't look like there is any profit, the population itself is profit.

In this world, there are too many poor people who work hard but cannot get enough to eat and can only sell their sons and daughters as servants and slaves.

For example, a few children in the orphanage were bought by Professor Svetlaya because their parents really couldn't afford to raise them—this is an extremely lucky thing, because after impoverished children like them are sold, the best result is to have one or two limbs cut off to become beggars, or to become child prostitutes.

That is a way of living that has lost its dignity.

Under the care of Professor Svetlaya, although some of the children in the orphanage are still thin, at least they look like normal people.

For most of the malnourished children in the slum, this is considered the best quality ‘commodity’, which can be sold to high-ranking officials as servants, or…

And a guy like Seneca, whose appearance can be said to be excellent, if he didn’t have a certain ability to protect himself, and never went to dangerous areas, and had the professor’s name to deter others, he would probably have been abducted and sold to who knows where long ago.

However, although the eyes are staring intently, no one dares to take the lead.

——Don’t underestimate any target that looks weak, especially women and children.

Since they dare to appear openly, it means that this team has guarantees for their safety.

Even gangs know this.

So soon, all these eyes shifted to Su Zhou.

“Oh?”

And Su Zhou just raised his eyebrows and looked around.

This simple action caused all the peeping eyes in the entire street to be withdrawn.

Some even let out a painful low howl, and blood flowed from their eyes. That was an excessively sharp source energy responding to excessively obvious malice, piercing the atmosphere and shattering their eyeballs.

Such a move not only did not anger these demonized persons, but instead made them retreat to their strongholds in awe.

——Sure enough, this is an invincible powerhouse!

Since there are other weaker people who can be exploited, the gang cannot swing a knife at the stronger ones.

Of course, in addition to this, Su Zhou also sensed many curious, weak, and puzzled gazes.

“Isn’t that the Hee Light Orphanage…”

“Why are they here…ah, is that Director Svetlaya? When did he come back?”

“Why are they heading towards the battlefield in the east?”

These are all demonized persons and ordinary people who live in poverty and are even extremely hungry and unable to walk.

They stay in the dC district, which is located on the edge of the ‘battlefield’, simply because they have no way to leave here.

“This place is too terrible…”

Watching all this, Su Zhou couldn’t help but frown.

Although he had just intimidated several gangs with one glance, making them not dare to take action, there was not much pride in the man’s heart.

The current situation in the Avendell slum is more tragic than he imagined—there are many corpses thrown down in the streets and alleys, many of which are malnourished children.

Faintly, he could still hear shouts of killing and cries for help in the distance. Even if Su Zhou casually raised his hand and flicked it, the splashing stones would stun all the gang members chasing them, but such shouts of killing and chasing sounds could be heard endlessly in the slums of all districts of Avendell.

And many children in the orphanage, whether it was the oldest Seneca or the youngest Ivan, were indifferent to the current situation, as if they were used to it.

“Demonized persons are like this.”

Hearing Su Zhou’s murmur, Seneca, who was following Su Zhou, couldn’t help but sigh. He vigilantly watched the intersection ahead, paying attention to whether there were gang members ambushing him, and softly explained, “The number of demonized persons increases every Red Moon, and once they become demonized persons, except for professionals and the truly powerful, even big businessmen will be overthrown by their children or enemies, and all their property will be taken away and kicked into the lower city.”

“After all, demonized persons are indeed a terrifying disease that often goes crazy, kills people, and eats people, and is almost impossible to cure…Just like me, if you, Professor, hadn’t helped me suppress the symptoms of demonization three years ago, then before I was petrified by my own power, I would probably have killed half of the children in the orphanage.”

Speaking of this, Seneca even smiled bitterly. He looked around the surrounding streets: “Avendell is still considered good. I still remember some areas in the central part of the empire that not only deny that demonized persons are human beings, but even make demonized persons into tools.”

“Tools?”

Su Zhou frowned slightly. He didn’t like to hear the word tool in the context of ‘people’.

But the young man’s tone seemed commonplace: “Yes, tools.”

“Cutting off their limbs, cutting off their tongues, digging out their eyes, piercing their eardrums, breaking their spines, and then adding brainwashing spells, using demonized persons as living transcendent tools…I remember that in Isabella’s birthplace village, there was a custom of turning demonized persons into human pillars to protect the village.”

“In this way, even if the demonized person goes crazy or goes berserk, the damage will be minimized, and it can also be used as a weapon on weekdays.”

Speaking of this, Seneca looked at Su Zhou strangely.

But thinking of his petrifying gaze, he immediately lowered his head again: “Wasn’t this the story you told us back then? To scare us that if we didn’t control our demonization and source energy, we would end up like that…”

“Aunt Daria also often tells such stories, telling us that we should be obedient, and disobedient bad children will be caught and made into human pillars…”

Su Zhou turned his head and looked at Seneca and Daria, his brow furrowed slightly.

When…did the fairy tales and scary stories told to children become so dark?

The situation on the continent of Aean, the malice towards demonized persons, although completely understandable, is a bit too much.

At this time, Su Zhou calmed himself down again and looked at the orphans who were moving forward.

The older children held the hands of the younger children, Aunt Daria held three little girls who had been sick in her arms, and several unhealthy children were lying on the suitcase that Su Zhou was dragging.

Of the thirty-seven children, only the two youngest children, whom Svetlaya adopted in Avendell, were not demonized patients.

Their souls are very turbid, stemming from the chaotic souls spontaneously formed by the erosion of their bodies by source energy.

But, that is also a soul.

Having a soul in this world with extremely high source energy density means that one can control a certain amount of transcendent power.

Moreover, precisely because it is a soul, it can be purified by related soul cultivation methods.

After a little thought, Su Zhou realized that there were eight methods in the inheritance of the Mind Card series alone that could purify these chaotic instinctual souls.

“Even the most vicious method, by constantly dueling between mind cards, allowing the mind monsters transformed by the filthy souls to gradually become pure in battle, victory, and failure, can curb and even eradicate the demonization disease.”

“And the simplest method is for someone above the Divine Intent realm to take action. You don’t even need to cultivate the Path of Nature and awaken the Heavenly Soul’s Karma Position. As long as you specialize in souls, you can easily help people dispel the demonization disease.”

“Although it will weaken the essence of the soul, or even make the demonized person’s fragile demonized soul disappear, that was not necessary in the first place.”

At this moment, Su Zhou’s eyes were solemn: “The level of cultivation methods in this world is not low, and because it is a fragment of the Twilight Primordial World, it may be higher than I imagined—at least the so-called Disaster Realm powerhouses are enough to be overlord terrestrial immortals based on their performance alone. This is definitely not their peak combat power.”

“In such a world, is it possible that they cannot find a way to cure the demonization disease?”

There must be a way.

Just like in the past few eras, whether it was the Fairy civilization, or the humans, the era of the Winged Human Demon War, there was no such thing as a demonized person.

On the continent of Aean, those truly great nobles, the controllers of mobile cities, the masters of the empire, their descendants, it is impossible that none of them have the demonization disease—even the better the talent, the more easily they will be eroded by source energy during the active period of the Demon Moon.

But among them, there are indeed no demonized persons.

The ordinary people of this world believe that it is because the adults and masters have good self-protection.

But in reality, Su Zhou believes that someone is helping the infected people to eradicate their demonization disease.

But this method has not spread in the current Aean civilization.

As for why the answer is…

“This world needs demonized persons—it needs these cheaply produced transcendents and souls.”

“Demonized persons themselves are ‘renewable crops’ grown through the farmland of the common people…they are the property of the local lord.”

“Only this reason can explain why the lord would allow poor, worthless demonized persons to live in their city!”

After reaching this answer, Su Zhou couldn’t help but feel a sinking in his heart: “Because their existence itself is value!”

This is indeed the most likely result, otherwise it cannot be explained why the powerhouses of this world, knowing that demonized persons are dangerous and having the ability to solve and cure this disease, still allow it to spread.

Demonized persons are perhaps just a herd of livestock raised on the earth by those powerhouses.

Now, the orphanage team has approached the edge of the eastern lower city.

After another distance, they can enter the engineering construction area that ordinary people will not approach, which is the area with extremely high source energy radiation.

Just as Su Zhou was thinking about the terrible situation in the Aean world, he vaguely heard the gang scolding again not far away.

“Catch them!”

“Run?! What are you running for? When I catch you, I’ll cut off your limbs!”

“The task only requires you to be alive, but it doesn’t say you can’t be disabled!”

Arrogant and vicious curses rang out on the other side of the street, and the escaping party, a demonized father and daughter, didn’t even have the strength to reply. They ran rapidly, panting heavily, towards the radiation area.

Whoosh!

The sound of crossbow shooting rang out, causing Su Zhou to look sideways.

The father and daughter were quite agile and dodged all the shots, making the pursuing gang even more frustrated.

“These gangs are never-ending…speaking of which, why are they catching people and robbing them at this time?”

Casually grabbing towards the ground, Su Zhou crushed the stone road like tofu and squeezed a handful of stones in his palm—if he threw it out with his strength and skill, the power of this handful of stones would probably exceed that of a volley of artillery shells.

Su Zhou was quite puzzled: “Since just now, I have seen more than a dozen kidnappings and robberies…all targeting demonized persons.”

“And if I don’t stop them, it seems that they all want to catch people. The point is not the money, but the people themselves.”

Thinking of his just-concluded inference that ‘demonized persons’ are also a kind of property of the lord, Su Zhou couldn’t help but click his tongue, feeling very irritable.

At this moment, the father and daughter being chased and the demonized gang also saw the Hee Light Orphanage team.

“Crap!”

The fleeing father’s heart sank. He originally saw figures ahead and thought it was a mercenary team preparing to go to battle, planning to stir up chaos and take the opportunity to run away.

But these children in front of him would not only fail to cover his escape, but they might also be accidentally injured by him.

“Get out of here! Get far away!”

He ran and shouted loudly, his tone harsh, trying to scare the group away: “Didn’t you see me running for my life? Get lost!”

The gang of thugs chasing behind was also stunned. Although they might have heard the name of the Hee Light Orphanage and knew Professor Svetlaya when they were hanging out in the dC district, they were chasing at this time, so where did they have time to recall carefully.

“These little brats can also be used to complete the task?”

“Steward Raisel will definitely be happy! The big shots above need young demonized persons. I didn’t expect to be so lucky!”

For a time, this group even planned to give up the target in front of them, which was difficult to catch up with, and instead attack the orphanage group.

“Stop, everyone, stand still!”

They shouted: “What are you guys planning to do? How dare you enter the territory of our Red Cloak Gang at will!?”

The crossbows were aimed at the team.

The father who was running away couldn’t help but sigh—he was powerless to stop it and could only feel sorry in his heart.

And Su Zhou narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes flickered.

“Professor, weapons!”

At this moment, Aunt Daria, who had realized what was happening, was preparing to rummage through her package to find a kitchen knife. She obviously saw that there was no way to settle this matter peacefully. The old woman revealed a ruthless expression: “I don’t know how many people have fallen into the hands of this gang of trash, and they’ve lost their human form. There’s no need to reason with them!”

“Professor, wait a moment, I’ll be right…”

But Su Zhou shook his head.

He stretched out his hand and took a pencil used for painting from Isabella, who was standing next to Daria.

“Lend it to the professor for a while, I’ll give it back to you later.” He said.

“Ah? Director? Okay, okay…”

Then, under the little girl’s stunned gaze, Su Zhou took a colored pencil and walked towards the shouting demonized gang.

Five seconds.

In these five seconds, all the children, including Seneca, Aunt Daria, and the father and daughter who had been running away, all stopped their movements and actions and stared at this scene in shock and bewilderment.

The warm air current with the smell of blood shot out amid the metallic sound. It was the sound of the pencil shattering arrows, splitting swords, and piercing light armor.

The air current roared, and it was the counterattack launched by the good players among the gang members. They roared and waved their swords at the figure who looked like he was walking slowly but was actually extremely fast.

But the result was very comical.

Faced with the arrows and sword lights flying towards him, he just raised his pencil and rotated it casually.

Then, he stabbed forward.

Buzz!

The tip of the pen was not sharp, because Isabella had used this pen to draw a little red flower before, but at this time, it pierced through the storm, the sword light and the source energy, and with a soul-stirring light, flashed towards the foreheads of the gang’s good players.

“It’s just a pencil…”

At this moment, great fear filled the minds and bodies of all the gang members.

But it was too late.

The pen had already arrived.

Blood splattered.

Five seconds later, among the eight people who were chasing the gang, only one survived.

Su Zhou stretched out his hand, he pressed it on the head of this gang expert who was the strongest and could use an ordinary officer’s long knife to chop out a flash of knife, and connected to the soul to scan the information.

“Glulu…”

During the scanning process, this gang member kept rolling his eyes and foaming at the mouth—Su Zhou’s soul scanning would not have such sequelae originally, but he did it on purpose.

In the red pupils, the brilliance of source energy converged slightly. Su Zhou raised his head, withdrew his hand, and his expression was solemn.

“In fact, it was the local nobles who directly took action, requiring the demonized gangs to capture demonized persons in the chaos?”

Steward Raisel is a steward under Earl Avendell, the ruling noble of Avendell.

At the same time that Su Zhou led the ship to crash into the dC district, he ordered the gangs in the dC district to take advantage of the chaos to capture people, arresting patients whose demonization disease was not very deep and sending them to designated locations.

Although the gangs themselves are demonized persons, precisely because of this, they have fewer scruples when bullying demonized persons, and they are even more cruel.

For this order, the gang, which was originally the dog secretly raised by the nobles, naturally tried its best to please the big shots above.

“Strange, even if demonized persons are really the humanoid transcendent tools they raise among the people, then what are they planning to do with their current actions?”

At this moment, the gang expert was already dead, and Su Zhou scattered his soul.

None of these gang members were wronged by being killed. Everyone had several lives in their hands, and what they did on a daily basis was either abducting and selling people, or robbing and collecting protection fees, killing people and seizing goods, and forcing people to ruin their families.

If the bad treatment of ordinary people makes it impossible for demonized persons to live a normal life and be bullied and discriminated against.

Then what the gang did was make it impossible for demonized persons to survive at all.

With a heavy heart, Su Zhou turned around and looked at the pair of father and daughter who had been chased.

With a jolt, the father and daughter immediately knelt down—the little girl knelt down a little slower, and was even pressed down by her father.

“Sir, sir! I really didn’t intentionally lead this group of trash to you!”

He buried his head on the ground and kowtowed hard, even bleeding.

The man begged, “Please let us go, we have nothing, please…”

“Get up.”

And Su Zhou sighed and said. In the bewildered eyes of the father and the bewildered eyes of the girl, he repeated again, “Get up.”

“I have a question to ask you. What does it look like to be kneeling?”

“Get up and talk.”

The man’s calm tone had an unquestionable majesty.

“Yes…”

Swallowing his saliva, the man slowly got up. He wiped the blood from his head and then instinctively moved the girl behind him.

The father nervously stared at the white-haired old man in front of him: “Sir, you, what questions do you want to ask.”

“Why are you being chased? What has happened in Avendell recently? Why are demonized persons still being captured when there are foreign enemies invading?”

Su Zhou didn’t talk nonsense, he stared at the man in front of him.

And after the other party took a few deep breaths, he forcibly calmed down and replied, “We are being chased, probably because the Red Cloak Gang has been catching scattered demonized persons recently…As for foreign enemies invading, it’s just right to take advantage of the chaos to clean up the demonized persons in the slum. Haven’t all the major city-states done this during the war for so many years?”

“But sir, things have been a bit strange recently…Even before this chaos, many demonized persons I knew had disappeared…Especially a few months ago, during the period when taxes were suddenly increased, many people who couldn’t pay the taxes and didn’t hide were arrested. It is said that they were sent to farms to work and mines to mine.”

“Brother Larsen was also arrested!” The little girl hiding behind the man interjected at this time with some grievances, “He still owes me a doll!”

“…That’s roughly it.”

The father hurriedly patted his daughter’s shoulder, signaling her not to speak. He raised his head again, looked at Su Zhou, and rubbed his hands a little humbly and fearfully: “That’s all I know…This is also because I used to be a member of the mercenary group. A few old brothers told me when they were drinking…”

“Demonized persons in the mercenary group are relatively safe, after all, everyone is hugging each other. This time, I also planned to join my old brothers, but these Red Cloak Gang bastards ran into me on the road…”

Su Zhou listened to all the news quietly.

“Sir…”

Noticing that Su Zhou didn’t get angry and his expression was quite solemn, the man with a face full of stubble and bloodshot eyes from being too tired asked with a hint of expectation, “Sir, are you…taking the children to join the rebels?”

“Huh?”

Su Zhou was stunned at first, but he quickly realized what was going on.

The man in front of him regarded his previous breaking of Avendell’s city defense wall as an ‘rebel’s’ attack on the city.

And the fact that he was leading many orphans against the crowd to the edge of the dC district, which should be the ‘center of the battlefield’, seemed to be seen as an action to join the rebels.

Because Professor Svetlaya himself used to be a rebel leader, he was particularly familiar with this phenomenon.

And the man’s expectant gaze seemed to indicate that as long as Su Zhou said ‘yes’, he would directly ask to join the rebels along the way.

“No, I’m not.”

Su Zhou shook his head, he never gives others false hope: “I just have the means to take my children out of this city.”

“I am not a rebel.”

He could see that the man’s eyes dimmed at a visible rate.

“Okay, okay…” he whispered, muttering: “Then, sir, can I leave?”

“You can go.”

This scene made Su Zhou’s heart move slightly.

He stared at the man in front of him, and the girl who had been behind him, quietly and obediently watching all this, and then said softly, “As a reward for you answering my questions…I will give you this cultivation method.”

Saying this, Su Zhou casually picked up a long knife with a relatively wide blade from the weapons that had been dropped on the ground after the gang members died.

He picked up the colored pencil that he had borrowed from Isabella earlier and had not returned yet, and casually engraved on it: “The formula is very simple—I have refined it several times in my heart, and it should be concise and easy to understand.”

“Although it can’t be done after serious optimization, to the point where anyone who can read can cultivate, this cultivation method has also achieved the point where anyone who can skillfully perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within 10,000 can learn it.”

“Take it, it can stabilize the demonization disease and slightly purify the soul…If you have good talent, you should be able to comprehend a little bit of the essence of Mind Cards.”

Handing out the long knife, the exhausted father blankly stretched out his hand to take the knife.

And Su Zhou’s voice continued: “You can teach it to anyone, transfer it to others, it would be best if it can be spread, but after all, it is a flawed cultivation method and its effectiveness is not high.”

The man saw that on the blade of the knife, there were guiding spell formulas engraved in small fonts.

There was a faint silver-green light flowing on it, which was the extremely pure glory of source energy. Just touching it made the chaotic demonized soul in his body settle down a little.

“This, this…”

The father trembled, but Su Zhou had already stopped paying attention to him.

The white-haired man turned around and continued to lead the children towards the east in silence.

In Avendell, the continuous sounds of battle continued.

The infighting between gangs, the resistance of demonized persons when capturing them, the battle of wits and courage between the city guards and unseen enemies, and some lawbreakers who were originally afraid that the world would not be chaotic and deliberately took advantage of the chaos at this time.

For a time, a huge riot that was enough to sweep through all the lower districts and even the entire city was about to unfold under Su Zhou’s influence.

And Su Zhou had already led the team to the front of the First Light ship.

Master Flint was waiting here. He had already built a layer of steps through alchemy so that many children could directly enter the ship without Su Zhou having to send them up one by one.

Gasha and Loya were also here to welcome their partners. They greeted the other orphans excitedly, waving their shields and alchemical equipment in their hands—Seneca stepped forward and hugged them tightly, and then quickly separated.

After being separated for many days, they did have a lot of emotions they wanted to vent, but they all knew that they could only celebrate after entering the ship and being safe.

But until the end, when all the children had entered the ship, Su Zhou was still frowning, standing in place.

[What’s wrong, Professor Svetlaya?]

Flint was about to use alchemy to put away the ladder, but when he saw Su Zhou standing still, he couldn’t help but feel a little confused: [You destroyed the Avendell City Guard Headquarters and did it very quickly. You came back with the children in a few tens of minutes.]

[They are still in chaos now and will need at least half an hour to reorganize—what’s more, I also saw some rebels who oppose the local nobles continuing to incite chaos.]

[But this won’t last long. I have observed that the Avendell family guards of the core city have been dispatched. They are all real transcendents and good at fighting and suppressing. They are the most solid guardian force of Avendell…If they take action, the chaos will soon stop. If we get entangled, it will be too late to run.]

“Yes, I know.”

Su Zhou stood in front of the sharp structure of the First Light ship piercing the city wall.

He turned around and looked at Avendell, lost in thought.

After a while, the man’s eyebrows relaxed and he let out a long breath: “You guys go first—the children are all safe, and the First Light ship is very fast, they can’t catch up.”

“I’ll stay behind first and will catch up with you later based on the signal.”

“Director?”

At this time, Loya, who was also guarding the ship’s entrance, couldn’t help but be a little stunned. He asked in confusion: “Why do you want to stay?”

Although Loya was emotionally sensitive and a little fragile, he was very smart—he knew very well that if he and the others stayed any longer, they would face the attacks of all the armed forces of Avendell.

In that case, even if the director was ridiculously strong, the children on the ship might not be unscathed.

“As for me…I originally thought I could hold back.”

Turning around, Su Zhou faced away from the First Light ship, and everyone on the ship. He replied calmly: “I was originally thinking of taking you away and leaving directly, simply and neatly, without caring about the miscellaneous things in this city.”

“But, it’s really too unpleasant.”

The man narrowed his eyes and stared at the noble mansion in the center of the city.

In his eyes, a scarlet light flickered: “Let’s not talk about helping those in need—bullying my children, oppressing the demonized persons in the entire city, and acting recklessly without being punished by anyone.”

“I must get an explanation and make something big happen.”

He took a step.

Then, in everyone’s shocked eyes, he turned into a whirlwind.

He flew towards the Earl’s Mansion in the core city of Avendell!

……

Today is a sunny day.

There are no clouds for thousands of miles, and the sun shines in the backyard. The late autumn and early winter in the south of the Aean continent are usually continuous rain, but today is a good day for morning tea and a pleasant mood.

The bright glory of the Saint Sun brings rolling source energy. In such weather, even the speed of cultivation will be a few points faster than usual.

But Earl Avendell is not happy at all today.

The crystal cup on the tea table in the backyard is a top-notch utensil produced in the old capital of Thor during the heyday of the last empire. The tea inside is bright red and transparent. It is ‘Red Mist Marrow’, the most precious source energy drink that can only grow in areas soaked by the blood of demon beasts, which can improve people’s basic physical fitness. Just one sip can strengthen the blood and bones. Just one sip can replenish the physical strength consumed by ordinary transcendents after a day of hard fighting.

Such a drink, and the maid serving nearby is also a rare beauty. She has long legs, fair skin, a slender and soft waist, and her temperament is dignified and noble. The smile on her face seems to be able to capture people’s hearts, like the most noble noblewoman.

The maid gracefully filled Earl Avendell’s teacup and stood quietly on the side, kneading his shoulders with her boneless hands.

This is an enjoyment that almost all men cannot refuse.

——But this still cannot make the Earl feel comfortable.

Taking a sip of the Red Mist Marrow, the noble master with long dark green hair, brown pupils, and a body that can be called robust frowned. He squinted at the old steward who was sweating profusely next to him and said with dissatisfaction, “Is the situation clear now? How was the Shudean destroyed?”

“Raisel, don’t be like those lowly untouchables and use words like ‘it was broken by the enemy warship’ to fool me. I have also been on the battlefield and experienced the folk customs. I know how thick the armor of the warship is.”

His voice was stern, with impatience in his majesty.

“Sir, the dC district has completely fallen into chaos, and even the lower districts in other areas have rioted…Some demonized persons who originally had ulterior motives are now attacking the boundaries of the upper and lower cities.”

And next to the Earl’s seat, the old steward with white hair had a helpless look on his face at this moment: “After the city guards restored communication, they all went there to suppress the rioters, and the invaders…have not been found yet, maybe there are few of them, they have already mixed into